Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.